"Burning Inside" is a song by American

industrial metal Industrial metal is the fusion of Heavy metal music, heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating Heavy metal guitar, metal guitar riffs, sampling (music), sampling, synthesizer or music sequencer, sequencer lines, and Distor ...

band Ministry. It was released as the sole single from the band's 1989 album ''

The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste ''The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste'' is the fourth studio album by American industrial metal band Ministry (band), Ministry, released on November 14, 1989, by Sire Records. The music took a more hardcore, aggressively guitar-driven directio ...

''. The song is featured in the intro movie of the video game '' Scarface: The World Is Yours''.

Track listing

Background

Video

A video for the song was released in late 1989 and became a hit on

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's ''

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''. The video features the band's live show with the steel fence used on the 1989-1990 tour and later a live version of the song featured on ''

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up ''In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up'' is a live album by American industrial metal band Ministry, released on September 4, 1990, by Sire Records. Critical reception and legacy Audio from the live performance of "Breathe", subtitled "Liv ...

''. Also shown in the video are a chaotic audience, a few people on fire, and the band performing onstage. The music video was directed by Eric A. Zimmerman and Ben Stokes through their production company H-GUN Labs in Chicago.

Cover

The single's cover appears to depict

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soldiers, with one individual holding Mao's red book.

Personnel

Ministry

Al Jourgensen Alain David Jourgensen (born Alejandro Ramírez Casas; October 9, 1958) is a Cuban-American singer, musician and music producer. Closely related with the independent record label Wax Trax! Records, his musical career spans four decades. He is t ...

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(1, 2),

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(1, 2),

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Paul Barker Paul Gordon Barker (born February 8, 1959), also referred to as Hermes Pan, is an American musician, best known as the former bass guitarist, producer and engineer for industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2003. Prior to Ministry, he pr ...

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, programming (1, 2), production

Additional personnel

*Bill Rieflin -

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(1, 2), programming (1, 2), guitar (3) *Joe Kelly -

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(1) *Nivek Ogre - vocals (3) * Jeff Ward - drums (3) *

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- keyboards (3) *Tom Baker - mastering

Covers

The song was covered in 2000 by the heavy metal band

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, featuring

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. The cover was featured on the soundtrack to '' The Crow: Salvation''.

Charts

References

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